Seeing as I ended up getting both in one movie, I figure I got my money's worth.
I saw Godzilla
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Seeing as I ended up getting both in one movie, I figure I got my money's worth.
Saw it for the third time yesterday, and the first time in 3D. 3D enhances, but not much. Haven't seen it in IMAX yet.
Two more things struck me. First was how great the music was for a giant monster movie. It really fit.
Second was that Cranston's Japanese was really good. He probably only learned what he needed to for the script but it sounded like it was second language for him.
Two more things struck me. First was how great the music was for a giant monster movie. It really fit.
Second was that Cranston's Japanese was really good. He probably only learned what he needed to for the script but it sounded like it was second language for him.
As it understand it, that was an earlier specimen of the same species as Godzilla, which had been infected by the parasitic MUTO eggs.
Just to be precise about jargon: those were eggs, not cocoons. As I understand the life-cycle of MUTOS, the larval form hatched from an egg, migrated to Japan from the Philippines, formed a cocoon in the ruins of the nuclear power plant, and, after "feeding" on the radiation for fifteen years, eventually hatched into its adult form.
Egg to larva to pupa to adult . . . .
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Makes sense. In most continuities, there's more than one member of the species. In the original Showa-era series, the Godzilla featured from 1955-75 was a different individual from the one killed in 1954, and of course there was the juvenile Minilla discovered in 1967. In the Heisei series, the Godzilla who emerged in 1984 was initially believed to be the same one from 1954, but by a decade later it had been confirmed that the original had died; and that universe also had a juvenile of the "Godzillasaurus" species, hatched from a preserved egg in 1993. In the Kiryu continuity, comprising the 2002 and 2003 films, Kiryu/Mechagodzilla was actually built around the skeleton of the original, dead Godzilla, which actually drew the second Godzilla to it through a spiritual bond. And Final Wars was basically a Showa variant, so we can assume its Godzilla was the second one -- plus Minilla existed in that reality too. So it's only in the universes of the first three Millennium-era films that Godzilla is one of a kind (as far as is known).
However, some of the comments Gareth Edwards has made in interviews suggest that this Godzilla is the last of his kind. Although I wonder, what if the nuclear attack did successfully kill a Godzilla in 1954 and this is a second one? That could explain why he's not hostile to humans despite the attempt of humanity to destroy him. Although the skeleton in the mine would have to be much older than that.
Yeah, the skeleton in the mine was an ancient fossil, not the remains of the 1954 creature . . ..
I finally saw it yesterday, which is a feat in of itself as I rarely go to the movies. I can see both sides of the debate, but ultimately, I enjoyed it and I don't think I wasted my money or the (admittedly modest) effort to reach the movie theater. I will likely purchase a copy on disc when it becomes available.
Still, it will also be fun to see what the gang from RiffTrax does with it. They just fulfilled a KickStarter campaign, raising enough money to "riff" the 1998 TriStar version as part of their multi theater live performances. Trekker4747 can explain that arrangement a lot better than I can.
Credits for the render:
"Kaiju" figure...Valandar at DAZ
"RexPlus" spinal plates...Gareee at DAZ
"Greeblie" buildings...StoneMason at DAZ
"Twister" skydome...AntFarm at DAZ
"MST3K Shadowrama"...Best Brains
Sincerely,
Bill
Still, it will also be fun to see what the gang from RiffTrax does with it. They just fulfilled a KickStarter campaign, raising enough money to "riff" the 1998 TriStar version as part of their multi theater live performances. Trekker4747 can explain that arrangement a lot better than I can.
Credits for the render:
"Kaiju" figure...Valandar at DAZ
"RexPlus" spinal plates...Gareee at DAZ
"Greeblie" buildings...StoneMason at DAZ
"Twister" skydome...AntFarm at DAZ
"MST3K Shadowrama"...Best Brains
Sincerely,
Bill
Thanks Greg and Chris !
Essentially, Rifftrax knew they could ge the rights to do a live show riffing of the 1998 Godzilla movie, they had to raise the $100,000 to secure those rights and did a Kickstarter on it (given their success with it last year.) They achieved their KS goal within one day, meaning they can broadcast the live-riffing of the 1998 Godzilla movie.
The show will be in August broadcast live to theaters across America and in Canada, I believe there will be a re-broadcasting of it a week later. They could not get home-video distribution rights to the movie so there will be no DVD or Video On Demand download of the Live! event, instead they will make a standard MP3 riff of Godzilla available sometime after the live show.
The live show will be broadcast from the Belecourt theater in Nashville, Tennessee.
It will feature Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett of MST3K fame. More than likely there will be at least one short-subject film before the main feature as has pretty much been the case for their other live-show outings. (Though I think the Starship Troopers riff didn't have a short because of the length of the movie.)
Godzilla 1998 was the leader on a website Rifftrax has where users submit the title of a movie and then use social media and other means to convince people to go on the site to vote for their suggestion.
Plenty of good Kickstarter rewards for this, but unfortuantely none include tickets to the show given that they can't guarantee it'll be available in a backer's area. They are offering exclusive shorts for backers, coupons for purchases on the site and free access of the MP3 version of the Riff, among other things.
With the Starship Troopers riff last year KS backers were given first-dibs to buy the tickets to the actual live show in Nashville, which I took advantage of and got to see last year. Quite a blast! I suspect something similar will happen this time.
The last KS event had a goal of $50,000 which was paid for within hours and eventually ended at around $250,000. That show was advertised as being to secure the rights to the first Twilight movie but had the condition that they may not be able to get it in which case they would try for another movie.
Right now the KS for Godzilla sits at around $150K with 16 days to go.
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